Lecture for convivium
Cornell University
Spring 2011
As everyday public space, streets form the backdrop for spontaneous social interaction, informal economic activity and urban leisure time. In the last century this important and often underestimated role of streets in the network of urban commons has been endangered, first by the rise of the automobile and then by privatization and public policies that favor regulation and security over spontaneity, public ownership and heterogeneity. Proactive forms of protest are on the rise, but will they succeed to reclaim the space in-between?
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